The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Never regret your past because it made you who you are today.

Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.

People don't want the truth when they ask how you're doing after you lost your brother.

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.